OT: MSU Hackers Start Releasing Minor Pieces of Data
There was a data breach at MSU recently and the hackers that took the information requested ransom to stop the data from being leaked. MSU told them to get bent so they have started publishing info which so far has been innocuous. Hopefully they got some good dirt on Izzo, but unlikely.
https://amp.lansingstatejournal.com/amp/3144933001
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You're starting off pretty tame so far, Maizen.
I don't generally support hackers ransoming people but I'm suddenly questioning my morality now that this has happened to MSU.
Situational Integrity.
Good. Fuck MSU.
This is such a Sparty thing to happen, on all sides. The entire world is burning down, but let's extort this rotten institution for some cash.
Screw MSU.
But I'm not sure you'll get what you're looking for from their [squints at article] Department of Physics and Astronomy servers.
Hence the "unlikely" part lol
You’d be surprised at what astrophysicists get up to in their free time.
Have they been probing Uranus?
Professor Hale, is that you?
MSU, “Gent bent.”
Hackers, “They don’t think we’ll do it or have anything. Let’s drop a kernel.”
MSU, “Anybody have their contact info.?”
oh man "Gent Bent" would be a great porn name
Magic Johnson ftw
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With a nod to the 2000 election... "Chad Dangler".
I normally will rag on MSU but hackers who steal a bunch of information from public institutions indiscriminately and then ransom it for money can go to hell. And more likely than not it's going to be a bunch of innocuous fluff along with a couple of embarrassing pieces of information for students and staff, not necessarily people who deserve to, say, have their passports or job offers published to the world.
my company was ransomed a few years ago. it took us a few hours to figure out what was happening. then our comptroller had to call a shady acquaintance to find out what "bitcoin" was, and how to go about getting a few hundred thousand dollars' worth...at which point we decided to tell them to 'get bent,' and our i.t. department had to work 24/7 for five days to rebuild servers from a backup.
while they rebuilt our servers, we all had to call our longtime clients and tell them that we couldn't guarantee that their data or proprietary info was safe, then we lost a few days getting back up to full speed and rebuilding all of our laptop setups. all told, that year an employee-owned company of 400 lost about a third of its bonus pool.
i may be misremembering some of those details, but that was the gist. so, yeah...fuck hackers. even when they target msu.
Ransomware has advanced really far in the last few years. You can't really tell the hackers to get bent anymore. Current ransomware can encrypt all of your data, including on backup servers.
Companies basically have to pay the ransom to get back up and running when they experience a sophisticated ransomware hack.
Apparently the breached server is in the physics department. So I don't think that there will be any dirt on Izzo...
What about possible links to dark matter?
There's definitely info on the mysterious red-lock program.
Dark matter has been permeating our world for a long time. The police can't seem to do anything about it. SAD.
"You don't know me, but I have a very particular set of skills. I have swept bodies much larger than yours under the rug."
-MSU to hackers
Not like they are hiding anything.
'Data breaches are terrible unless it happens to a school I don't like' is one heck of a take.
This is the way of the future. We need to hold our data gatekeepers to a higher accountability or we are completely screwed. Anything you send over a network (most you aren’t even aware of or complicit in) should be assumed to be public knowledge. Encryption can help but if you’re transmitting it, you can’t encrypt unless it’s an e2e platform (which they’re trying to make illegal anyways).
100%.
(clears throat)
STOP USING ZOOM FOR YOUR CONFERENCE CALLS.
also, use a VPN everywhere you go, no exceptions never not ever.
that is all.
Why no Zoom? Our company uses it for staff meetings and to stream events to FB Live.
they've had a whole series of privacy and security issues.
it's gotten better, but they're kinda like facebook in that they fuck up and then tell users they're sorry and they won't do it again.
as to end-to-end encryption, they've said that they'll only do it for paid accounts, interestingly connecting encryption and "cooperating with law enforcement," which language always makes me very, very nervous.
Thanks for the info. Their "sorry, we won't do it again" is a common refrain in their developer forums.
MSU Physics Dept? Like anyone gives a crap about the secret ingredient in Axe body spray. Or what temperature couch material burns.
MSU has the number one ranked grad program for nuclear physics in the country. Number two is MIT. Presumably FRIB is integral to this.
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/nuclear-science-rankings
Pfft. Outta here with your facts. I've been on this blog long enough and lately to know none of that matters.
Lmao they released a receipt from a pizza order. Wow, these hackers really hit the motherlode.
Good on MSU for telling them to get bent.
Here we are in year 6 and Harbaugh STILL hasn't gotten the computer science department to hack into the OSU athletic dept. server to steal and publish the bag men $$$ dirt???
Yet another way JH is not earning his $8 million....
Mork likes to drink soda. Mr Izzo's car is green.
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